>A hacker can be and is perceived as many things, including: A criminal, amagician, a security professional, a cyber warrior, a consumer’s rightsactivist, or a civil rights activist to name a few.>How can you prevent break-ins to your system if you don’t know howthey are accomplished? How do you test your security measures? Howdo you make a judgment about how secure a new system is? The answeris by being a skilled hacker yourself. Knowing how to break into things,helps developers create more secure systems and programs by beingintimately aware of the type of breaches and techniques that exist.>Hackers who tout themselves as a consumer advocates believe that byreleasing security breaches to the general public, this forces corporationsand technology providers to fix potentially damaging errors morequickly.>A civil rights hactivist is normally an individual who is concerned withthe sentencing of computer hackers. For example, two hackers breakinto the same system. One breaks in just to break in and notify theorganization, the other breaks in and steals valuable and proprietary data.Should they be given similar sentences?>Another type of civil rights hactivist is concerned with cryptographystandards and copyright law.